How to Use onset in a Sentence

onset

noun

• Trump’s election in 2016 marked the onset of the third stage.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 16 Mar. 2024
• But a gloomy pall has been hung over the conference from the onset.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2022
• The Last of Us star was unfazed at the onset of the wing challenge with host Sean Evans, cleaning the meat off the bone.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2023
• One key difference between a cold and the flu is that the flu has a rapid onset.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2023
• In fact, more than 80 percent of the studies didn’t even specify the age of onset of the pains.
  — Elizabeth Chang, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2022
• At the onset of the pandemic in the spring of 2020, downtowns across the country emptied out.
  — Ash-Har Quraishi, Amy Corral, CBS News, 7 Mar. 2023
• The north wind reached 23 mph at least once, discouraging dreams of the onset of spring.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2024
• The 30-year-old located his pitches and filled up the strike zone from the onset of his outing.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 20 July 2023
• For example, the disease is the leading cause of the onset of epilepsy in adults.
  — Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 9 May 2024
• Since the onset of AI, experts have debated its pros and cons for the workforce.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 14 May 2024
• For an asymptomatic case the rules are the same, but pegged to when a test was taken instead of the onset of symptoms.
  — Chase Difeliciantonio, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Dec. 2022
• That was in 2018, and Wong says the appearance was ultimately scratched by the onset of a trade war.
  — Nick A. Zaino Lll, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Feb. 2023
• Some Democrats began calling for Biden to do just that after the 81-year-old stumbled from the onset of the debate.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 28 June 2024
• No-knock warrants arose at the onset of the war on drugs under President Richard Nixon.
  — Caleb Bedillion, ProPublica, 7 Oct. 2022
• Of course, not every Tree Swallow responds to the onset of spring thaw in exactly the same way.
  — Lee Alan Dugatkin, Scientific American, 14 May 2024
• Those who die of the virus usually do so within two weeks of onset, according to the WHO.
  — Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 12 Jan. 2024
• After the onset of Covid, the network started screening for Covid, too.
  — Colin Puzo Smith, STAT, 28 Mar. 2023
• Production was shut down, however, at the onset of the WGA strike.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 25 Sep. 2023
• By all accounts, the coming year looks like more of the same albeit a bit more uneventful at the onset – which is good news.
  — Greg Petro, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
• Hot flashes weren’t my first sign of early-onset menopause.
  — ELLE, 10 Jan. 2023
• The onset of the virus triggered more remote work, a trend that caused demand to boom for tech devices and tech services.
  — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 12 Jan. 2024
• This could have been avoided if the Fed had succeeded in doing its job as lender of last resort to SVB at the onset of the run.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Mar. 2023
• At that time, a friend of mine was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s.
  — Lee Sharrock, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
• The event, which was due to take place in the Netherlands, was canceled because of the onset of the coronavirus pandemic.
  — Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2022
• Nalysnyk recalled her words to him at the onset of the Russian invasion of Ukraine early last year.
  — Laura Crimaldi, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Mar. 2023
• Now, a pair of studies suggests the birds rely on the onset of dusk and the suggestion of fair skies ahead as signs for taking flight.
  — Erin Blakemore, Anchorage Daily News, 8 May 2023
• At stroke onset, a clot or ruptured blood vessel interrupts blood flow to the brain.
  — Bree Iskandar, STAT, 15 Aug. 2023
• Huntsman New York is at about four to five months from onset to completion right now.
  — Isiah Magsino, Town & Country, 6 May 2023
• Medications Certain over-the-counter and prescription medications are linked with the onset of Crohn's disease flares.
  — Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 28 Oct. 2024
• By housing status, the data show that renters, who tend to be lower-income, experienced the largest increase in retail spending at the onset of the pandemic, but now show the smallest overall gains since 2018.
  — Lindsey Leake, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024